No Right Turn

One of the hallmarks of undemocratic regimes is the government's use of propaganda against their own population to keep themselves in po...

While I'm on the topic of transparency: I am disappointed to see Green co-leader playing the bullshit game over requests for the meeting...

The new government's attitude to transparency has suddenly become a concern, with an apparent trend of secrecy setting in early. Playing...

Egypt's President al-Sisi facing serious questions about strategy to bring Isis hotspot Sinai province under control

For the past month, Australia officially closed its Manus Island concentration camp. However, the refugees there refused to move, because th...

How bad was Nigel Murray's abuse at Waikato DHB? This bad : A health board boss took two international work trips while on sick leave, ...

US foreign policy in the Middle East doesn’t exist anymore

On October 31, Australia finally closed its concentration camp on Manus Island. But rather than leaving, the refugees refused to move, becau...

Writing in the Herald , Brian Fallow asks what makes farming so special in relation to climate change policy? It's a good question. Oth...

In 2010, Peter Whittall killed 29 men at Pike River Mine by running an unsafe mining operation. In 2013 he bribed his way out of prosecutio...

In July 1995, a Bosnian Serb army under the command of Ratko Mladić murdered more than 8,000 people around the town of Srebrenica . It was a...

So, Robert Mugabe has finally resigned as president of Zimbabwe . Good riddance. He was an authoritarian dictator who fixed elections, loote...

So, it turns out that the government's "billion trees" policy isn't a billion extra trees, but maybe only half a billion...

The orcs are at it again, wanting to rip the top off a mountain on the West Coast to dig an open cast coal mine . Part of the area they want...

Last week, at the climate talks in Bonn, New Zealand joined an alliance to eliminate coal-fired power stations : New Zealand has joined an ...

One of National's primary policy goals during its time in power was to remove democracy from the RMA by removing notification and appea...

Post-election, there was a sustained campaign in the media from National supporters for the Greens to support National to cling to power for...

The Kaiapoi River is turning salty , and irrigation is to blame: A freshwater Canterbury river is on the brink of turning into a saltwater ...

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri accepts exile in France as Saudi Arabia no longer feels like a home away from home

Back in August, Tonga's king dissolved the country's parliament , because he and the noble caste did not like the elected government...